Cats and Pumpkins- Family Craft Fun

Join us for some fun Halloween crafting and create your own cat and pumpkin inspired crafts in this fun family workshop.

Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Stained Glass Weekend Workshop with Louise Watson – Saturday 4th/ Sunday 5th October 2025

Create your own piece of stained glass!

Saturday 4th / Sunday 5th October 2025

10.30am until 3.30pm on Saturday & 10am-3pm on Sunday

The workshop covers two days and is £195 per person total

The craft of stained glass and lead light window making using traditional techniques. Design a simple line drawing. From this, the glass pieces are cut and assembled on top of the drawing, bending and cutting the lead to fit around the glass. The joints of the lead sections are soldered to finish.

Louise Watson is an established architectural glass artist who has worked internationally. From bespoke interior pieces to public art larger installations, Louise specialises in delivering colour and light through the medium of glass. Recently worked on the restoration of Rochdale Town Hall and some examples of her work can be found in the final three photos here.

Make & Throw with Raw / Textured Clay with Deiniol Williams Sat. 13th September

Saturday 13th September 2025

10.30am until 3pm

£120 per person

Deiniol’s ceramic practice explores the dichotomy between rhythm and discord, balance and disorder. Bringing together raw and unrefined materials and incorporating them into the clay, he seeks to find the harmonious point between the rhythmic flow of the potter’s wheel and the disruptive and chaotic inclusions within the modified clay.

In this workshop, Deiniol will lead a demonstration and practical session in modifying and preparing textured clay with aggregates. You will develop your own batch to throw with on the wheel and hand – build within the session.

Basic knowledge of throwing on the wheel is required.

All materials and bisque firing included.

Throwing on the Potters Wheel Session Saturday 20th September 2025

Learn new skills in throwing!

For any ability aged 16+

Saturday 20th September 2025, 10.30am – 12.30pm (2 hours)

£68 per person to include everything. Up to 4 places available in each session.

Enjoy an introduction to throwing on the potters wheel! The class will include a bisque firing of any successful work produced on the day and will be available to collect following the class.

Adele Howitt

3 places available.

Family Craft Session

Bring the whole family and join us in the Children’s Library for a creative crafting session!

  • First Saturday of every month
  • 12:30pm – 1:30pm
  • Age: All the family

Materials are provided.

Please book a ticket for everyone attending.

Adults Art Club

Join us for an adults only arty gathering at Bransholme Library.

Bring your own materials and let’s paint, draw and sketch together!

See you there!

Relaxed (SEND) Family craft activity- Woolly mammoths, scifi fun and cannons

This is a craft session with limited numbers designed for children who have a disability, are neurodivergent or experience anxiety. In the session children can have a go at some of the crafts that have been available as drop-in sessions over the summer, but in a quieter setting with limited numbers. In this session, children can make their own cannon inspired by Henry’s Gun (on display in the Hull and East Riding Museum), make crafts inspired by popular space and scifi films, and make their own woolly mammoth craft. Booking essential. Please only book for each child or young person taking part. Accompanying adults do not need to book a ticket. This activity is funded by Hull City Council and Department for Education through the Holiday Activities and Food programme. Free healthy snacks and a drink will be available to all children that take part in the session

Marvellous Mammoths- Healthy Holidays

Have a go at making your own crafts inspired by Mortimer the popular model woolly mammoth at the Hull and East Riding Museum.

This activity is funded by Hull City Council and Department for Education through the Holiday Activities and Food programme. Free healthy snacks and a drink will be available to all children that take part in the session

Takes place: 1pm – 3pm

Arts & Craft Sessions

Join in at the prospect Centre for arts and craft sessions this summer.

Make masks, flags, drums and join the parade!

6th August, 12-3pm
14th August, 12-3pm
21st August, 12-3pm
28th August, 12-3pm

£1.00 per child.

Just turn up, no booking required.

Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies!

This summer, join us as the Animal Education Centre and Pickering Park Aviary, for a celebration of Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies!🦋🐜🐞
Decorate a variety of bug-themed crafts, starting from just £1!
📍 East Park Animal Education Centre:
➡️ Starting on Monday 21 July until Friday 28 August, excluding 15 and 18 August.
📆 Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
🕑 10.30am to 2pm
📍 Pickering Park Aviary:
➡️ Starting Thursday 24 July until Thursday 14 August.
📆 Every Thursday
🕑 10.30am to 2pm

Fairytale Summer Crafts

Join us for a special edition of summer crafts to make some magical creations and meet some real-life princesses from Make a Smile!

Dress up encouraged but not required.

Evening Painting Progression Course

Painting Progression – This eight-week course is designed to build upon skills that have been developed throughout our basic painting course. You will look more deeply into techniques that underpin classical painting, both representational and abstract, as well as surveying contemporary painting and developing your own methods. The course includes discussions and presentations surrounding historic themes and styles within painting. Your work will be included in a Feral ‘Reveal’ exhibition.

Materials are provided.

This course is delivered in two four week sections, by two tutors; offering you a broader scope and differing approaches to painting.

We want you to be able to access our courses regardless of income. If you are unable to make the full contribution, please contact us and we will do our best to help out.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have to ensure that our course costs are covered. On the rare occasion that we don’t recruit enough participants and have to cancel a course, we will inform you before the start of the course and refund your fee.

Daytime Print Course

Develop a range of print skills over 8 weeks. Using drawing as a starting point, you will explore many print processes, including monotype, drypoint etchings, lino print and mixed media. Exploring and combining these techniques, you will produce a portfolio of finished prints.

This course is open to adults over 18 regardless of experience. Materials are provided.

We want you to be able to access our courses regardless of income. If you are unable to make the full contribution, contact us and we will do our best to help out.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have to ensure that our course costs are covered. On the rare occasion that we don’t recruit enough participants and have to cancel a course, we will inform you before the start of the course and refund your fee.

Evening Painting Course

Our 8 week course in painting gives you the opportunity to explore, experiment and find your own interests and direction. You will explore how colour, shape, form and mark-making work together to create images. Experimenting with gesture, scale and surface, you will develop your own painting vocabulary and language, applying figurative and abstract approaches.

This course is delivered in two four week sections, by two tutors; offering you a broader scope and differing approaches to painting. Materials are provided.

We want you to be able to access our courses regardless of income. If you are unable to make the full contribution, contact us and we will do our best to help out.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have to ensure that our course costs are covered. On the rare occasion that we don’t recruit enough participants and have to cancel a course, we will inform you before the start of the course and refund your fee.

Daytime Painting Progression Course

This 8 week course is for people who would like to further develop their knowledge of acrylic paint. The sessions will focus on experimentation, pushing the materials, layering and resolving paintings. There will be demonstrations and exercises which aim to loosen your style of painting and embrace the unpredictable. By the end of the course you will be starting to develop your own style of painting and will have more understanding of how to start and develop an abstract or representational painting.

This course is suitable for adults 18+ who have experience of acrylics or have tried acrylics before but who may still classify themselves as beginners. Basic materials will be provided, but you are also welcome to bring your own paints and brushes.

This course is delivered in two four week sections, by two tutors; offering you a broader scope and differing approaches to painting.

We want you to be able to access our courses regardless of income. If you are unable to make the full contribution, contact us and we will do our best to help out.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have to ensure that our course costs are covered. On the rare occasion that we don’t recruit enough participants and have to cancel a course, we will inform you before the start of the course and refund your fee.

 

Daytime Painting Course

This 8 week introductory painting course aims to encourage your confidence in the use of this exciting medium. You will have both guidance and the freedom to develop your own interests in painting. You will be given exercises that encourage experimentation with composition, observation, gesture, scale and colour in order to begin to develop your own painting vocabulary. You will also learn about practical elements of using certain paints, brushes, surfaces, maintenance of tools and economy of materials. Your tutors will introduce you to representational and abstract approaches to the medium.

This course is delivered in two four week sections, by two tutors; offering you a broader scope and differing approaches to painting.

This course is open to adults 18+ regardless of experience. Materials are provided, but please feel free to bring any materials of your own if you want to. Please wear clothes you are happy to get paint on!

We want you to be able to access our courses regardless of income. If you are unable to make the full contribution, contact us and we will do our best to help out.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and have to ensure that our course costs are covered. On the rare occasion that we don’t recruit enough participants and have to cancel a course, we will inform you before the start of the course and refund your fee.